SOUTH AFRICA: Apartheid Television

Ach, man, can't you see what'II happen?
It's afternoon. The kaffir's in the living room on his hands and knees
sweeping the carpet. Someone's left the television on. He looks up at
the screen. He sees a chorus line of white girls with scanty costumes.
What does he do? Of course, he runs upstairs and rapes the madam.

So go the oft-expressed racial fears of the stern Calvinist Afrikaner
society, which for years has successfully resisted the introduction of
"the little bioscope," as TV is called in South Africa. Their chief...